Austin, TX

Austin, TX

Moving to Austin, TX

Located in Central Texas, Austin is the 11th most populous city in the US. Its metropolitan area, however, is the 4th largest in Texas with more than 1.7 million residents. Known as the “Live Music Capital of the World,” you’ll enjoy the music and other fun things to do in Austin. Residents are known as “Austinites,” and soon you’ll be calling yourself one, too! Here are even more reasons to love moving to Austin, TX:

What makes Austin a great place to move to?

Booming Business

Forbes named Austin #9 on the Best Places for Business and Careers in the U.S. Fortune 500 Companies like Whole Foods Market, Apple, Google, IBM, Intel, Texas Instruments, and 3M have regional offices or headquarters in Austin. The well-known computer company, Dell, is located in nearby Round Rock, a suburb of Austin.

“Keep Austin Weird”

You’ve probably heard this slogan adopted by the Austin Independent Business Alliance to promote small businesses in Austin. It has been adopted by the non-mainstream residents of Austin that are highly progressive socially, culturally, and politically, especially in the arts and music scene. Austin’s “weirdness” is in its local eateries, shops, and vibrant eclectic population.

Clean Air and Earth

Austin is known as a clean air city because it has no-smoking ordinances that apply to all public places, buildings, and restaurants. Austin also has an ordinance against single-use carryout bags, which means that you’ll need to bring your reusable shopping bags with you. Thin plastic bags are not offered in stores.

Friendly People

Travel and Leisure Magazine ranked Austin #1 on the list of cities with the best people (referring to personalities and attributes of citizens).

Great Music Scene

Austin is known for its vibrant music scene with more music venues per capita than any other U.S. city. Visit the nightclubs on 6thstreet for great music, and then attend the Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park. The South by Southwest (SXSW) festival is a film, interactive, and music festival that covers a couple weeks and many musical acts. People travel from far away to attend, but you’ll be living in Austin and can take advantage of the local music scene.

Austin Film Festival

If you love watching movies, you won’t want to miss the Austin Film Festival. Austin has hosted many major motion pictures like Secondhand Lions, Spy Kids, Office Space, Miss Congeniality, Hope Floats, and True Grit to name a few.

Sports

Austin is the largest city in the U.S. without a major professional sports league. Austinites support the University of Texas Longhorns to feed their sports cravings. Did you know that Austin is known as a major Disc Golf city? It has 11 established courses and more than 50 courses within driving distance! Austin is also the birthplace of women’s flat track roller derby. There are many minor league sports teams to watch in Austin.

Education

Austin has 29 public school districts, 17 charter schools, or 69 private schools for school-aged children. Most of the city is served by the Austin Independent School District. For higher education, of course, Austin is home to the University of Texas, but there are also smaller schools such as the Art Institute of Austin, Concordia University Texas, and Texas Culinary Academy. The Austin Community College District also has 10 campuses and 8 centers around the area.

How to move to Austin

If you’re moving to Austin, move with a company that can get you there on budget! U-Pack® can do just that! Here’s how we work:

U-Pack delivers a moving container or moving trailer to your home.

You load it.

Your belongings are delivered to your new home in Austin.

You unload it.

78% of U-Pack customers chose to move with U-Pack because of the price. Our rates are comparable to truck rental, and you can even add moving help to one of both ends of you move, making it more like full-service. If you need storage, we do that too.

How much will it cost to move to Austin?

Get a free moving quote from U-Pack to see! Our quote includes the driver, fuel, sales tax, road tolls, liability coverage, and estimated transit time. We drive. You save. ®

If we are not able to provide door-to-door delivery to your city near Austin, TX, you can save money by loading or unloading at the service center conveniently located in Austin, TX. If you have questions about serviceability to your location, please call us at 800-240-7422, and a U-Pack Moving Consultant will gladly help.